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The Greek State: Its Past and Future

An interview with Anastassios Anastassiadis

by Nicolas Delalande [20-03-2012]
The Greek crisis is above all a crisis of the Greek state and its legitimacy. One must look back to the nineteenth century to understand its people’s defiance of bureaucrats and the role of (...)
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Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet [21-02-2012]
Far from being natural, the compatibility between the legal orders of the European Union and member states is the result of arrangements and decisions through which judges ensure the preeminence (...)
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A Reflection on Populism

by Pierre Rosanvallon [10-11-2011]
As a counterbalance to the simplistic temptations of the populism that is currently spreading within European democracies, Pierre Rosanvallon invites us to complicate our notion of democracy and (...)
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European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard [24-10-2011]
At a time when Europe is equated with sovereign debt and political powerlessness, one should not forget that the foundations for a European citizenship have already been laid. Its potential for (...)
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Narrating the World

About: J. Goody, Le Vol de l’histoire. Comment l’Europe a imposé le récit de son passé au reste du monde, Gallimard.

by Jacques Revel [17-10-2011]
On the basis of a comparison between Asia and Europe, the anthropologist Jack Goody denounces what he calls “the theft of history”. He criticizes Elias, Braudel, Needham, and others for having (...)
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For a Social Investment Pact in Europe

by Anton Hemerijck & Bruno Palier & Frank Vanderbroucke [15-06-2011]
Three researchers react against the perspective for European countries of drastic austerity and emphasize the need, central to the Lisbon Agenda, for social investment. Investing in the skills of (...)
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The Nature and Limits of the Majority Principle

by Pasquale Pasquino [20-04-2011]
Constitutional courts are more and more important in our lives. But how can they be legitimate? Pasquale Pasquino shows that political theory cannot ignore the existence of these new bodies, any (...)
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Universal Postal Services: High Noon For a Time-tested Institution?

by Dieter Plehwe [25-03-2011]
Dieter Plehwe describes how the different European postal services, in the backdrop of the crisis of Fordism and state regulation, have had to face new innovative groups with aggressive expansion (...)
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The Persistence of Empires

by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper [14-02-2011]
Empires are not necessarily the obsolete political form that the historiography likes to condemn. Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper offer a global and long term history that convincingly shows (...)
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Europe Is Afraid of Its Roma

by Jean-Baptiste Duez [10-12-2010]
Since the 1990s and the collapse of the Communist bloc, thousands of “Roma” have left Eastern Europe. Their arrival in the west, particularly France and Italy, has provoked strong negative (...)
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